VIDEO: Toledo jobbed in OT loss by blown PAT call
September 25th, 2011 at 12:46 PM ^
beyond corruption. Sickening.
September 25th, 2011 at 2:29 PM ^
That seems like one of the easiest things to check. When I saw the headline I assumed it popped up over the uprights somehow. Amazing.
September 26th, 2011 at 10:46 AM ^
I hate to bring this aspect into college football but if that loss is the difference between five and six wins for Toledo (in other words, bowl eligibility) then maybe they ought to bring a lawsuit against the Big East. I hate the idea of a school suing another entity, but that is the world that all this money has brought us into, and going bowling is a pretty big chunk of change, directly and indirectly.
September 26th, 2011 at 1:04 PM ^
Although at least according to this post, maybe they'd be better off staying home, $-wise.
September 26th, 2011 at 12:35 PM ^
and it was crunch time. Neb went for it on fourth down and failed to advance the ball. However,for some reason the down marker wasn't flipped before the obvious fourth down. After the chaos had subsided...Neb was granted a fifth down enabling them to score,and went on to win the game.
One of the BIGGEST blown calls I had ever witness.
September 26th, 2011 at 1:23 PM ^
Colorado vs. Mizzou was the 5th down. Nebraska vs. Mizzou was the kicked ball.
Mizzou was unlucky during the 90s.
And IIRC, the 5th down was because the officials failed to change the down marker after a spike to stop the clock.
September 26th, 2011 at 3:50 PM ^
Didn't ESPN do a piece last year about the 5th down debacle? Very interesting how that all happened.
September 26th, 2011 at 4:42 PM ^
Looks like there was many things that added to the confusion of the 5 downs. That was the first year college football teams could spike the ball to stop the clock. There was a man (literally) having a heart attack on the field that distracted the down marker, so he didn't flip it.
But despite all of that, the second 2nd down, (which was really the 3rd down) resulted in Missouri stuffing Colorado at the 2. And THAT should have run the clock out to end the game. Instead, the clock runs off 5 seconds but stops at the 8 second mark for nearly a full 10 seconds. Then the clock doesn't start until Colorado is ready and in position to spike the ball again. (Was Spartan Bob working the clock that day?)
And then to top it off, on the 5th down, Colorado's QB tries to run it in. It looks like he got stuffed at the goal line but he gets rewarded the TD anyway.
Missouri got screwed 3 times to end that game.
September 26th, 2011 at 5:58 PM ^
And in both cases the benefitting team won a share of the title that same season.
Amazingly, the 5th Down Game was at Mizzou, so their own crew screwed up the clock and their own crew screwed up the down marker. It's like the anti-Spartan Bob.
September 27th, 2011 at 1:20 PM ^
And in both cases the benefitting team won a share of the title that same season.
Which when you think about it is really why that stuff is remembered as well as it is. Syracuse-Toledo isn't about to shake the historical seismograph.
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